Poster Presentation: Make Your Pitch

Goals

• Analyze the rhetorical situation and determine the appropriate audience or users of written communication, considering the needs of global audiences and people with disabilities. [CLO 1]
• Use conventions of various workplace genres, such as proposals, instructions, correspondence, reports, and slide decks, with understanding of how the genre conventions can be used as heuristics and as principles of arrangement. [CLO 4]

The Task

For this Major Writing Project Activity, review the information in the Poster Presentation: Assignment, and write an short script for a pitch of your ideas.

To get started, review the following resources on pitches:

• Elevator pitch, on Wikipedia
• How to Write an Elevator Speech, by Robert Pagliarini
• How To Prepare The Perfect Elevator Pitch, by Alejandro Cremades

Grading Process

When you submit your work, the points will be recorded in Canvas Grades immediately. I will review your answer. If I find that you did not put in appropriate effort or did not do the expected work, I will adjust your grade accordingly.